A friend recently related this, unfortunately not atypical, incident at my friend’s company. It was the joyous time of year for personal evaluations. Way they do it at that company is to […]
resource: property that can be converted into supplies (Webster)
Theory confirmation and disconfirmation
Time for an incomplete mini-lesson on theory confirmation and disconfirmation. Suppose you have a theory, or model, about how some thing works. That thing might be global warming, stock market prices, stimulating […]
Panda Runner
The site Panda Runner went live over the weekend. You haven’t been there yet? Now’s your chance. The site is a collaboration between my number one son and his best friend. The […]
Some good economic news!
The employment rate is plunging faster than a hundred kilogram bolide entering the atmosphere at a normal angle to the plane surface of the Earth [thank 49er!]. Manufacturing is down over a […]
I should be happier
According to CareerCast.com and the Wall Street Journal, I should be one happy guy. This is because Career Cast has done a “study” to rate the best jobs, and mine is right […]
Obama’s salary cap seem like a good idea to you?
The Law of Unintended Consequences is set to strike again. Obama et al. want to cap salaries at $500,000 at those companies that receive government “bailout” money. Why, the argument goes, should […]
Evidence the world isn’t completely going to hell
It isn’t all bad out there. There’s even grounds that the corporate sense of humor has returned, given that I saw Borders stack Anna Quindlen in its “Literature” section. More importantly we […]
I’m thinking of turning to crime
He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial Theorem1, which […]
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